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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD
@lauraabusta.bsky.social
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Staff scientist @WashU👩🏻‍🔬 Looking for positions in Europe! Neuro PhD @Princeton, researching cognitive control, decision making & computational psychiatry, she/her, Latina 🇨🇺. Views my own. Stand Up for Science!
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 12h
My shift from seeing my neurodivergence as needing to be hidden/masked into a positive identity & belonging to a community happened in large part because of #neurodiversity and #disability Twitter, once I became more open I learned that I did know more ND people irl, but I had to become open first 🫶
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 2d
Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)
A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications
Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.
www.nature.com
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 4d
👏🙌🥳😎🤓 awesome news congrats!!
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 5d
"This anti-ageing effect was strongest in expert tango dancers, whose brains were, on average, seven years younger than their chronological age." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level
To keep the mind young, dance the tango.
www.nature.com
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d
New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 8d
🙋🏻‍♀️ nice starter pack could you add me as well?
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 12d
Let’s get alt text reminders to be the BlueSky default!! @bsky.app @support.bsky.team #disability
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 12d
Alt text: Stacey Park Milbern smiling in a grey turtleneck sweater in her wheelchair. Behind, a blown up image of the quarter honoring her, which features a whole body image of her in a wheelchair. Overlaid is the text “STACEY PARK MILBERN HONORED AS THE FIRST WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR ON US CURRENCY”
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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 13d
Stacey Park Milbern becomes the first woman in a wheelchair on U.S. currency with the 2025 quarter, honoring her legacy as a disability justice activist. Congratulations on this historic recognition, celebrating representation, allyship, and advocacy for all.
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 12d
I was a #NSFGRFP recipient in 2014 and had a hugely positive experience. This program is a valuable investment in training our future leaders in science. It benefits #AllAmericans we should all robustly support this program. #ScienceIsForEveryone #StandUpForScience
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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 13d
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
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Laura A. Berner @lauraaberner.bsky.social · 13d
A big thank you to @pbs.org's Emmy-nominated "Healthy Minds" for highlighting neurocomputational research in eating disorders. Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr. Jeff Borenstein, who always asks the best questions. @bbrfoundation.bsky.social
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 13d
How does self control, either too much or too little, effect people w/ an eating disorder? In this episode of @pbs.org's "Healthy Minds", host Dr Jeffrey Borenstein has fascinating discussion w/ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Dr Laura Berner! NOT TO MISS✨ www.thirteen.org/programs/hea...
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 13d
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?

Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
www.science.org
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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 18d
✨My first science feature is out in Chemical & Engineering News!✨

I interviewed and wrote about Dr. Shana V. Stoddard, a brilliant disabled scientist changing STEM.

Disabled scientists deserve visibility and celebration.

cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...

#DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters
Shana V. Stoddard: How to create an environment for all science students to succeed
Grad student <b>Alyssa T. Paparella</b> talks with this computational biochemist about adjusting work styles and leaning on community
cen.acs.org
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19d
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lisa Kays @lisakays.bsky.social · Aug 27
Feeling tired, depleted, exhausted, or like you can't keep up? This tool may help you explore if that's a "me" problem or something bigger going on with how the world around you is supporting you.

open.substack.com/pub/shifthap...
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 16d
Hey @loveree.bsky.social always happy to connect with some neurokin!! That’s for the recommendation!
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Project LETS @projectlets.bsky.social · 29d
Join Project LETS on Sunday Sept 21st @ 1PM ET (10AM PST) for an online panel discussion on Abolitionist Care Work in Action!❤️‍🔥

Hear from our Peer Support Advocates on what non-pathologizing, holistic care work looks like — outside of carceral frameworks & systems.

REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action 🌀
A colorful flyer with a textured pink, blue, and green abstract painted background announces an online event. At the top, a bold black text box reads: “Abolitionist Care Work In Action.” Below, another text box explains: “What does non-pathologizing, holistic care work outside of carceral frameworks and systems look like? Hear from current Project LETS Peer Support Advocates in a panel discussion.” Further down, details of the event are listed in separate boxes: “online Zoom panel” “Sunday, September 21, 1pm EST / 10am PST” “ASL interpretation” To the right is the Project LETS logo in green and yellow script. At the bottom, a white box with black border reads: “register: bit.ly/care-in-action”
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 21d
You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 20d
The main thing I learn from academia dot edu is what papers other people with my same name are publishing from e-mails asking ‘is this you?’. sometimes it gets eerily close to relevant topics and I imagine a gathering of all the academic laura bustamantes 🤣
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 22d
lol the possum!! 😹
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Manuela Casasoli @manuelacasasoli.bsky.social · 22d
"A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public."

Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin.

🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM
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Image Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-bizarre-journey-prized-history-molecular-biology-archive-finds-new-home Photo 51 shows an x-ray diffraction image of DNA that helped reveal the molecule’s helical structure. Credit Science History Institute Image Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-bizarre-journey-prized-history-molecular-biology-archive-finds-new-home Rosalind Franklin, whose lab created Photo 51 in 1952, on vacation in Italy 2 years earlier. Credit Vittori Luzzati/Science History Institute
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 24d
📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩

Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TL;DR: Check 🧵 below
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 25d
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
www.sciencedirect.com
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